Ep 18: Ring sold doorbells to keep families safe, but its Neighbors app built a private surveillance grid shared with thousands of police departments.

Ring sold doorbells to keep families safe, but its Neighbors app built a private surveillance grid shared with thousands of police departments. Segment 1 — The Cold Open In the spring of 2019, a woman in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Detroit opened her front door to find police officers on her porch. They had received an alert through the Neighbors app that a “suspicious person” was lingering outside her house; the footage came from a Ring camera three blocks away. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.